Africa

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Burundi

Burundi had been monitored by FAST International from 2002-2008. FAST established a Local Information Network in Burundi in summer 2002.

FAST Analytical Framework
FAST Analytical Framework | Burundi | 2007

FAST Updates
FAST Update | Burundi | No 5-07
FAST Update | Burundi | No 4-07
FAST Update | Burundi | No 3-07
FAST Update | Burundi | No 2-07
FAST Update | Burundi | No 1-07

FAST Update | Burundi | No 2-06
FAST Update | Burundi | No 1-06

FAST Update | Burundi | No 2-05
FAST Update | Burundi | No 1-05

FAST Update | Burundi | No 4-04
FAST Update | Burundi | No 3-04
FAST Update | Burundi | No 2-04
FAST Update | Burundi | No 1-04

FAST Update | Burundi | No 3-03
FAST Update | Burundi | No 2-03
FAST Update | Burundi | No 1-03

FAST Country Risk Profiles

René Lemarchand: Burundi's Endangered Transition
FAST Country Risk Profile | Burundi | October 2006
ISBN 3-908230-65-9

Country Expert

Stephanie Wolters is a freelance political analyst and journalist specialising in the Great Lakes . She has been the author of the Economist Intelligence Unit's report on the Democratic Republic of Congo since 1998. Stephanie lived in the DRC from 1998 to 2003, working initially as the correspondent for the BBC, Reuters and the Economist magazine, and later as the chief news editor of Radio Okapi, the United Nations mission in the DRC (MONUC)'s national radio network. Stephanie has a master's degree in international relations and international economic, specialising in Africa from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

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DRC/Kivu Region

DRC/Kivu region had been monitored by FAST International from 2002 - 2008. FAST established a Local Information Network in the DRC/Kivu region in summer 2002.

FAST Analytical Framework
FAST Analytical Framework | DRC/Kivu region | 2007

FAST Updates
FAST Update | DRC/Kivu | No 5-07
FAST Update | DRC/Kivu | No 4-07
FAST Update | DRC/Kivu | No 3-07
FAST Update | DRC/Kivu | No 2-07
FAST Update | DRC/Kivu | No 1-07

FAST Update | DRC/Kivu | No 2-06
FAST Update | DRC/Kivu | No 1-06

FAST Update | DRC/Kivu | No 2-05
FAST Update | DRC/Kivu | No 1-05

FAST Update | DRC/Kivu | No 4-04
FAST Update | DRC/Kivu | No 3-04
FAST Special Update | DRC/Kivu | June 2004
FAST Update | DRC/Kivu | No 2-04
FAST Update | DRC/Kivu | No 1-04

FAST Update | DRC/Kivu | No 4-03
FAST Update | DRC/Kivu | No 3-03
FAST Update | DRC/Kivu | No 2-03
FAST Update | DRC/Kivu | No 1-03

FAST Country Risk Profiles

Stephanie Wolters: Post-Transition DRC - Prospects for Stability
Fast Country Risk Profile | DRC | October 2006

Country Expert

Stephanie Wolters is a freelance political analyst and journalist specialising in the Great Lakes . She has been the author of the Economist Intelligence Unit's report on the Democratic Republic of Congo since 1998. Stephanie lived in the DRC from 1998 to 2003, working initially as the correspondent for the BBC, Reuters and the Economist magazine, and later as the chief news editor of Radio Okapi, the United Nations mission in the DRC (MONUC)'s national radio network. Stephanie has a master's degree in international relations and international economic, specialising in Africa from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

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Madagascar

Madagascar was monitored by FAST International from 2000-2008. A Local Information Network was established in July 2001.

FAST Analytical Framework
FAST Analytical Framework | Madagascar | 2007

FAST Updates
FAST Update | Madagascar| No 5-07
FAST Update | Madagascar| No 4-07
FAST Update | Madagascar| No 3-07
FAST Update | Madagascar| No 2-07
FAST Update | Madagascar| No 1-07

FAST Update | Madagascar| No 2-06
FAST Update | Madagascar| No 1-06

FAST Update | Madagascar| No 2-05
FAST Update | Madagascar| No 1-05

FAST Update | Madagascar| No 4-04
FAST Update | Madagascar| No 3-04
FAST Update | Madagascar| No 2-04
FAST Update | Madagascar| No 1-04

FAST Update | Madagascar| No 4-03
FAST Update | Madagascar| No 3-03
FAST Update | Madagascar| No 2-03
FAST Update | Madagascar| No 1-03

FAST Update | Madagascar| No 2-02
FAST Update | Madagascar| No 1-02

FAST Update | Madagascar| No 4-01
FAST Update | Madagascar| No 3-01
FAST Update | Madagascar| No 2-01
FAST Update | Madagascar| No 1-01

FAST Update | Madagascar| No 2-00

FAST Country Risk Profiles

Solofo Randrianja: Ravalomanana, 2002-2005: Des produits laitiers aux affaires nationales
FAST Country Risk Profile | Madagascar | August 2005
ISBN 3-908230-59-4

Solofo Randrianja: Honte au chien qui n'aboie pas lorsque le voleur est dans la maison
FAST Country Risk Profile | Madagascar | 2001
(ID 1659)

Country Expert

Dr. Richard R. Marcus received his BA from New York University (1989), MA from the University of California (1992), and Ph.D. from the University of Florida (2000) and has further Certificates of Study from the University of Paris, Sorbonne, University of Nairobi (Kenya), and University of Anatananarivo (Madagascar). He served as Lecturer in Political Science and Postdoctoral Associate in Environmental Studies and Globalization at Yale University and as Assistant Professor of Political Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville, AL USA. He is currently Assistant Professor of International Studies at California State University (Long Beach , CA USA). Dr. Marcus has been conducting field research on political change and popular perceptions of political and environmental policy change in Madagascar since 1992, and has additional field research experience in Kenya, Uganda, Israel, and the United States.

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Mozambique

Mozambique was monitored by FAST International from 2000-2008. A Local Information Network was established in winter 2001.

FAST Analytical Framework
FAST Analytical Framework | Mozambique | 2007

FAST Updates
FAST Update | Mozambique | No 5-07
FAST Update | Mozambique | No 4-07
FAST Update | Mozambique | No 3-07
FAST Update | Mozambique | No 2-07
FAST Update | Mozambique | No 1-07

FAST Update | Mozambique | No 2-06
FAST Update | Mozambique | No 1-06

FAST Update | Mozambique | No 2-05
FAST Update | Mozambique | No 1-05

FAST Update | Mozambique | No 4-04
FAST Update | Mozambique | No 3-04
FAST Update | Mozambique | No 2-04
FAST Update | Mozambique | No 1-04

FAST Update | Mozambique | No 4-03
FAST Update | Mozambique | No 3-03
FAST Update | Mozambique | No 2-03
FAST Update | Mozambique | No 1-03

FAST Update | Mozambique | No 2-02
FAST Update | Mozambique | No 1-02

FAST Update | Mozambique | No 4-01
FAST Update | Mozambique | No 3-01
FAST Update | Mozambique | No 2-01
FAST Update | Mozambique | No 1-01

FAST Update | Mozambique | No 2-00

FAST Country Risk Profiles

Andrea E. Ostheimer
FAST Country Risk Profile | Mozambique | 2001
(ID 941)

Country Expert

Elísio Macamo is Assistant Lecturer in Development Sociology at the University of Bayreuth. He studied in Xai-Xai, Maputo (Mozambique), Salford (England), London and Bayreuth. He was Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Bayreuth, Research Fellow at Centro de Estudos Africanos in Lisbon and AGORA-Fellow at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He is Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (South Africa) and serves on the scientific advisory board of the journals "Afrika Spektrum" and "Indilinga - African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems". He writes regularly for the Mozambican press, especially in the daily "Notícias" newspaper and the monthly magazine "Mais". He has published books and articles on the sociology of risk, politics, religion, work and knowledge.

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Asia

Afghanistan

Afghanistan was monitored by FAST from 2000-2008. A Local Information Network was established in summer 2001.

FAST Analytical Framework
FAST Analytical Framework | Afghanistan | 2007

FAST Updates
FAST Update | Afghanistan | No 5-07
FAST Update | Afghanistan | No 4-07
FAST Update | Afghanistan | No 3-07
FAST Update | Afghanistan | No 2-07
FAST Update | Afghanistan | No 1-07

FAST Update | Afghanistan | No 2-06
FAST Update | Afghanistan | No 1-06

FAST Update | Afghanistan | No 2-05
FAST Update | Afghanistan | No 1-05

FAST Update | Afghanistan | No 4-04
FAST Update | Afghanistan | No 3-04
FAST Update | Afghanistan | No 2-04
FAST Update | Afghanistan | No 1-04

FAST Update | Afghanistan | No 4-03
FAST Update | Afghanistan | No 3-03
FAST Update | Afghanistan | No 2-03
FAST Update | Afghanistan | No 1-03

FAST Update | Afghanistan | No 3-02
FAST Update | Afghanistan | No 2-02
FAST Update | Afghanistan | No 1-02

FAST Update | Afghanistan | No 4-01
FAST Update | Afghanistan | No 3-01
FAST Update | Afghanistan | No 2-01
FAST Update | Afghanistan | No 1-01

FAST Update | Afghanistan | No 3-00
FAST Update | Afghanistan | No 2-00
FAST Update | Afghanistan | No 1-00

FAST Country Risk Profiles

Rahimullah Yusufzai
FAST Country Risk Profile | Afghanistan | 2000
(ID 1633)

Waseem Hussein: Afghan - Pakistani Relations: The Afghan Perspective
FAST Country Risk Profile | Afghanistan | 1999
(ID 937)

Country Expert

Rainer Glassner is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Development and Peace (INEF) in Duisburg. He specialises on Afghanistan with a focus on governance, conflict and civil - military interaction. He currently works in the"State Failure and Local Governance in Somalia and Afghanistan" - Project
funded by the German Peace Research Foundation. Furthermore he is regularly called upon to train or brief staff of the German police, Military Officers and development workers prior to their deployment abroad. He is based in Germany but travels frequently to Afghanistan to conduct field research.

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Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan was monitored by FAST from 1998-2008. A Local Information Network was established in spring 2000.

FAST Analytical Framework
FAST Analytical Framework | Kazakhstan | 2007

FAST Updates
FAST Update | Kazakhstan | No 5-07
FAST Update | Kazakhstan | No 4-07
FAST Update | Kazakhstan | No 3-07
FAST Update | Kazakhstan | No 2-07
FAST Update | Kazakhstan | No 1-07

FAST Update | Kazakhstan | No 2-06
FAST Update | Kazakhstan | No 1-06

FAST Update | Kazakhstan | No 2-05
FAST Update | Kazakhstan | No 1-05

FAST Update | Kazakhstan | No 4-04
FAST Update | Kazakhstan | No 3-04
FAST Update | Kazakhstan | No 2-04
FAST Update | Kazakhstan | No 1-04

FAST Update | Kazakhstan | No 4-03
FAST Update | Kazakhstan | No 3-03
FAST Update | Kazakhstan | No 2-03
FAST Update | Kazakhstan | No 1-03

FAST Update | Kazakhstan | No 2-02
FAST Update | Kazakhstan | No 1-02

FAST Update | Kazakhstan | No 4-01
FAST Update | Kazakhstan | No 3-01
FAST Update | Kazakhstan | No 2-01
FAST Update | Kazakhstan | No 1-01

FAST Update | Kazakhstan | No 4-00

Country Expert

Marie-Carin von Gumppenberg, PhD in Political Sciences on State- and Nationbuilding in Kazakhstan 2000, OSCE Human Dimension Officer in Kyrgyzstan 2000-2001, OSCE Political Officer in Uzbekistan 2003-2005, heading Policy Studies Central Asia since 2001, numerous publications on security issues and political development in Central Asia, editor of the "Lexikon Zentralasien" in 2005.

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Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan wis monitored by FAST from 1998 - 2008. A Local Information Network was established in spring 2000.

FAST Analytical Framework
FAST Analytical Framework | Kyrgyzstan | 2006

FAST Updates
FAST Update | Kyrgyzstan | No 5-07
FAST Update | Kyrgyzstan | No 4-07
FAST Update | Kyrgyzstan | No 3-07
FAST Update | Kyrgyzstan | No 2-07
FAST Update | Kyrgyzstan | No 1-07

FAST Update | Kyrgyzstan | No 1-06

FAST Update | Kyrgyzstan | No 2-05
FAST Update | Kyrgyzstan | No 1-05

FAST Update | Kyrgyzstan | No 4-04
FAST Update | Kyrgyzstan | No 3-04
FAST Update | Kyrgyzstan | No 2-04
FAST Update | Kyrgyzstan | No 1-04

FAST Update | Kyrgyzstan | No 4-03
FAST Update | Kyrgyzstan | No 3-03
FAST Update | Kyrgyzstan | No 2-03
FAST Update | Kyrgyzstan | No 1-03

FAST Update | Kyrgyzstan | No 3-02
FAST Update | Kyrgyzstan | No 2-02
FAST Update | Kyrgyzstan | No 1-02

FAST Update | Kyrgyzstan | No 4-01
FAST Update | Kyrgyzstan | No 3-01
FAST Update | Kyrgyzstan | No 2-01
FAST Update | Kyrgyzstan | No 1-01

FAST Update | Kyrgyzstan | No 4-00

FAST Country Risk Pfofiles

Reto Weyermann: A Silk Road to Democracy?
FAST Country Risk Profile | Kyrgyzstan | January 2005
ISBN 3-908230-57-8

Eugene Huskey: Kyrgyzstan. A Case Study for Conflict Potential
FAST Country Risk Profile | Kyrgyzstan | 1999
(ID 901)

Country Expert

Marie-Carin von Gumppenberg, PhD in Political Sciences on State- and Nationbuilding in Kazakhstan 2000, OSCE Human Dimension Officer in Kyrgyzstan 2000-2001, OSCE Political Officer in Uzbekistan 2003-2005, heading Policy Studies Central Asia since 2001, numerous publications on security issues and political development in Central Asia, editor of the "Lexikon Zentralasien" in 2005.

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Nepal

Nepal had been monitored by FAST International from 2002 -2008. FAST established a Local Information Network in Nepal in summer 2002.

FAST Analytical Framework
FAST Analytical Framework | Nepal | 2007

FAST Updates
FAST Update | Nepal | No 5-07
FAST Update | Nepal | No 4-07
FAST Update | Nepal | No 3-07
FAST Update | Nepal | No 2-07
FAST Update | Nepal | No 1-07

FAST Update | Nepal | No 2-06
FAST Update | Nepal | No 1-06

FAST Update | Nepal | No 2-05
FAST Update | Nepal | No 1-05

FAST Special Update | Nepal | February 2005

FAST Update | Nepal | No 4-04
FAST Update | Nepal | No 3-04
FAST Update | Nepal | No 2-04
FAST Update | Nepal | No 1-04

FAST Update | Nepal | No 4-03
FAST Update | Nepal | No 3-03
FAST Update | Nepal | No 2-03
FAST Update | Nepal | No 1-03

FAST Country Risk Profiles

Alexandra Geiser:
Social Exclusion and Conflict Transformation in Nepal: Women, Dalit and Ethnic Groups
Fast Country Risk Profile | Nepal | September 2005
ISBN 3-908230-62-4

Country Expert

Ms. Liz Philipson teaches at the International Relations Department of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and at the University of Kent. Her courses focus on Conflict Analysis, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding.
She has previously worked as Programme Manager for South Asia at International Alert (UK). Her present main activities, apart academic research and teaching, are concentrating on free lance conflict analysis assignments, inter-active training in conflict transformation and dialogue facilitation. In January 2002 she was part of the EC Conflict Prevention Assessment Mission in Nepal.
Recent Publications include: Demanding Sacrifice - War and Negotiation in Sri Lanka (Ed), London 1998; Workers Rights are Human Rights - Labour Conditionality and the World Trade Organisation, Brussels 1998; and various reports and magazine articles on South Asian countries.

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Pakistan

Pakistan was monitored by FAST from 1999-2008. A Local Information Network was established in spring 2000.

FAST Analytical Framework
FAST Analytical Framework | Pakistan | 2007

FAST Updates
FAST Update | Pakistan | No 5-07
FAST Update | Pakistan | No 4-07
FAST Update | Pakistan | No 3-07
FAST Update | Pakistan | No 2-07
FAST Update | Pakistan | No 1-07

FAST Update | Pakistan | No 2-06
FAST Update | Pakistan | No 1-06

FAST Update | Pakistan | No 2-05
FAST Update | Pakistan | No 1-05

FAST Update | Pakistan | No 4-04
FAST Update | Pakistan | No 3-04
FAST Update | Pakistan | No 2-04
FAST Update | Pakistan | No 1-04

FAST Update | Pakistan | No 4-03
FAST Update | Pakistan | No 3-03
FAST Update | Pakistan | No 2-03
FAST Update | Pakistan | No 1-03

FAST Country Risk Profiles

I. A. Rehman: Hazard-Prone Pakistan
FAST Country Risk Profile | Pakistan | 2000
(ID 1635)

Ejaz Haider: Pakistan. Domestic and International Challenges
FAST Country Risk Profile | Pakistan | 1999
(ID 939)

Country Expert

Boris Wilke is a researcher at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Berlin (since 2003). His area of expertise covers violent conflicts, transformation of states, and internationalization of state domination. His regional expertise lies in South Asia, in particular Pakistan. He currently works for the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) "Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood", established and funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the Free University of Berlin. Mr. Wilke's project focuses on Transnational Security Governance in Pakistan (until 2009). Before joining SWP, he has done field research in both India and Pakistan, as part of a DFG-funded research project on state formation and state failure in the third world, at the University of Hamburg and the German Institute for Middle Eastern Studies (Hamburg).

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Tajikistan

Tajikistan was monitored by FAST from 1998-2008. A Local Information Network was established in spring 2000.

FAST Analytical Framework
FAST Analytical Framework | Tajikistan | 2007

FAST Updates
FAST Update | Tajikistan | No 5-07
FAST Update | Tajikistan | No 4-07
FAST Update | Tajikistan | No 3-07
FAST Update | Tajikistan | No 2-07
FAST Update | Tajikistan | No 1-07

FAST Update | Tajikistan | No 2-06
FAST Update | Tajikistan | No 1-06

FAST Update | Tajikistan | No 2-05
FAST Update | Tajikistan | No 1-05

FAST Update | Tajikistan | No 4-04
FAST Update | Tajikistan | No 3-04
FAST Update | Tajikistan | No 2-04
FAST Update | Tajikistan | No 1-04

FAST Update | Tajikistan | No 3-03
FAST Update | Tajikistan | No 2-03
FAST Update | Tajikistan | No 1-03

FAST Update | Tajikistan | No 1-02

FAST Country Risk Profiles
FAST Country Risk Profiles | Tajikistan | 2007
Matthias Siegfried: Precarious Peace in Tajikistan
FAST Country Risk Profiles | Tajikistan | 2001
(ID 1627)
Muriel Atkin: Tajikistan. A Case Study for Conflict Potential
FAST Country Risk Profile | Tajikistan | 1999
(ID 902)

Country Expert

Prof. Dr. Shirin Akiner is Lecturer in Central Asian Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She is also an Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House (London). Prof. Dr. Akiner has published several scholarly articles on Central Asia on such topics as Islam, ethnicity, nation building, political change and security. 

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Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan was monitored by FAST from 1998-2008. A Local Information Network was established in spring 2000.

FAST Analytical Framework
FAST Analytical Framework | Uzbekistan | 2004

FAST Updates
FAST Update | Uzbekistan | No 5-07
FAST Update | Uzbekistan | No 4-07
FAST Update | Uzbekistan | No 3-07
FAST Update | Uzbekistan | No 2-07
FAST Update | Uzbekistan | No 1-07

FAST Update | Uzbekistan | No 2-06
FAST Update | Uzbekistan | No 1-06

FAST Update | Uzbekistan | No 2-05
FAST Update | Uzbekistan | No 1-05

FAST Update | Uzbekistan | No 4-04
FAST Update | Uzbekistan | No 3-04
FAST Update | Uzbekistan | No 2-04
FAST Update | Uzbekistan | No 1-04

FAST Update | Uzbekistan | No 4-03
FAST Update | Uzbekistan | No 3-03
FAST Update | Uzbekistan | No 2-03
FAST Update | Uzbekistan | No 1-03

FAST Update | Uzbekistan | No 3-02
FAST Update | Uzbekistan | No 2-02
FAST Update | Uzbekistan | No 1-02

FAST Update | Uzbekistan | No 4-01
FAST Update | Uzbekistan | No 3-01
FAST Update | Uzbekistan | No 2-01
FAST Update | Uzbekistan | No 1-01

FAST Update | Uzbekistan | No 4-00

FAST Country Risk Profiles

Gregory Gleason: Uzbekistan. A Case Study for Conflict Potential
FAST Country Risk Profile | Uzbekistan | 1999
(ID 899)

Country Expert

Prof. Dr. Shirin Akiner is Lecturer in Central Asian Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She is also an Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House (London). Prof. Dr. Akiner has published several scholarly articles on Central Asia on such topics as Islam, ethnicity, nation building, political change and security.

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Europe

Armenia

Armenia Angola had been monitored by FAST International from 2006 -2008. FAST established a Local Information Network in Armenia in February 2006.

FAST Updates
FAST Update | Armenia | No 5-07
FAST Update | Armenia | No 4-07
FAST Update | Armenia | No 3-07
FAST Update | Armenia | No 2-07
FAST Update | Armenia | No 1-07

FAST Update | Armenia | No 2-06
FAST Update | Armenia | No 1-06

Country Expert

Richard Giragosian is a Washington-based analyst specializing in international relations, with a focus on economics, security and political developments in the former Soviet Union, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region. He is a regular contributor to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) publications and is a contributing analyst for the London-based Jane's Information Group, covering political, economic and security issues in the South Caucasus, Central Asia and the Asia-Pacific region.  Giragosian has written for the China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, Asia Times Online, the Journal of Slavic Military Studies, the Turkish Policy Quarterly, and the Harvard International Review, among others.

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Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan had been monitored by FAST International from 2006-2008. FAST established a Local Information Network in Azerbaijan in February 2006.

FAST Updates
FAST Update | Azerbaijan | No 5-07
FAST Update | Azerbaijan | No 4-07
FAST Update | Azerbaijan | No 3-07
FAST Update | Azerbaijan | No 2-07
FAST Update | Azerbaijan | No 1-07

FAST Update | Azerbaijan | No 2-06
FAST Update | Azerbaijan | No 1-06

Country Expert

Dr. Bahodir Sidikov, PhD in Oriental Studies on German Orientalism in pre- Soviet Central Asia (Halle/S., 2003), Research Fellow, Institute of East European Studies, Free University Berlin, 2003-2005, Research Fellow, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, 2006, numerous publications on political development in Central Asia and the South Caucasus.

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Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina had been monitored by FAST International from 2002-2008 with a temporary suspension in 2005/2006. FAST established a Local Information Network in Bosnia-Herzegovina in summer 2002.

FAST Analytical Framework
FAST Analytical Framework | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2006

FAST Updates
FAST Update | Bosnia and Herzegovina | No 5-07
FAST Update | Bosnia and Herzegovina | No 4-07
FAST Update | Bosnia and Herzegovina | No 3-07
FAST Update | Bosnia and Herzegovina | No 2-07
FAST Update | Bosnia and Herzegovina | No 1-07

FAST Update | Bosnia and Herzegovina | No 1-06

FAST Update | Bosnia and Herzegovina | No 4-04
FAST Update | Bosnia and Herzegovina | No 3-04
FAST Update | Bosnia and Herzegovina | No 2-04
FAST Update | Bosnia and Herzegovina | No 1-04

FAST Update | Bosnia and Herzegovina | No 4-03
FAST Update | Bosnia and Herzegovina | No 3-03
FAST Update | Bosnia and Herzegovina | No 2-03
FAST Update | Bosnia and Herzegovina | No 1-03

FAST Update | Bosnia and Herzegovina | No 1-02

FAST Country Risk Profiles

T. K. Vogel: Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Challenge of Legitimacy
Fast Country Risk Profile | Bosnia and Herzegovina | October 2006
ISBN 3-908230-66-7

Country Expert

Tobias K. Vogel is an editor with the newsweekly Transitions Online (www.tol.org), where he covers Southeastern Europe. A political scientist and graduate of the University of Zurich and the New School for Social Research in New York, he worked in Sarajevo for a number of years with the International Rescue Committee, the UN Development Program, and other organizations. He specializes in issues of ethnic conflict, European integration, and external state-building. He is a fellow of the 21st Century Trust ( London ) and a 2003 Mellon research fellow in security and humanitarian action ( New York ). T.K. Vogel is a regular contributor to TCSDaily.com and has also written for the Wall Street Journal Europe, the International Herald Tribune, and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, mostly on EU enlargement and Balkan politics.

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Georgia

Georgia had been monitored by FAST International from 2004-2008. FAST established a Local Information Network in Georgia in fall 2004.

FAST Updates
FAST Update | Georgia | No 5-07
FAST Update | Georgia | No 4-07
FAST Update | Georgia | No 3-07
FAST Update | Georgia | No 2-07
FAST Update | Georgia | No 1-07

FAST Update | Georgia | No 1-06

FAST Update | Georgia | No 2-05
FAST Update | Georgia | No 1-05

Country Expert

PD Dr. Barbara Christophe, History and Slavonic Studies in Kiel 1984-1990, received her PhD. from the University of Bremen in 1996 and her Habilitation in Political Sciences from the European University of Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder in 2004. In 1990, after her studies, she worked for one year at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. She worked as a research fellow at the Department for Social Sciences of the University of Frankfurt/Main from 1991 to 2001, then as a lecturer and researcher at the Department for Cultural Sciences of the European University in Frankfurt/Oder from 2001 to 2006. She has worked as a research fellow at the Georg Eckert Institute since March 2007. Her regional research focus has been on the post-Soviet area, in particular on the Baltic States, the Caucasus and Central Asia. She has covered a wide scope of topics, from issues related to research on nationalism and transformation to questions linked with peace and conflict research.

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Kosovo

Kosovo had been monitored by FAST International from 2002-2008. FAST established a Local Information Network in Kosovo in summer 2002.

FAST Analytical Framework
FAST Analytical Framework | Kosovo | 2006

FAST Updates
FAST Update | Kosovo | No 5-07
FAST Update | Kosovo | No 4-07
FAST Update | Kosovo | No 3-07
FAST Update | Kosovo | No 2-07
FAST Update | Kosovo | No 1-07

FAST Update | Kosovo | No 2-06
FAST Update | Kosovo | No 1-06

FAST Update | Kosovo | No 2-05
FAST Update | Kosovo | No 1-05

FAST Update | Kosovo | No 4-04
FAST Update | Kosovo | No 3-04
FAST Update | Kosovo | No 2-04
FAST Special Update | Kosovo | March 2004
FAST Update | Kosovo | No 1-04

FAST Update | Kosovo | No 4-03
FAST Update | Kosovo | No 3-03
FAST Update | Kosovo | No 2-03
FAST Update | Kosovo | No 1-03

FAST Update | Kosovo | No 1-02

FAST Country Risk Profiles

Christopher Tütsch: Kosovo's Burdensome Path to Economic Development and Interethnic Coexistence
FAST Country Risk Profile | Kosovo | August 2005
ISBN 3-908230-61-6

Country Expert

Dr Florian Bieber is a senior non-resident research associate of the European Centre for Minority Issues based in Belgrade and an International Policy Fellow with the Open Society Institute, Budapest. He previously worked as regional representative for ECMI in Belgrade and Sarajevo. He teaches at the regional Masters Program for Democracy and Human Rights at the University of Sarajevo and at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Vienna on contemporary nationalism in Serbia. He holds an M.A. in Southeast European Studies from the Central European University and an M.A. in History and Political Science from the University of Vienna.

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Montenegro

Montenegro had been monitored by FAST International from 2002-2008. FAST established an independent Local Information Network in Montenegro in summer 2006.

FAST Analytical Framework
FAST Analytical Framework | Montenegro | 2006

FAST Updates
FAST Update | Montenegro | No 5-07
FAST Update | Montenegro | No 4-07
FAST Update | Montenegro | No 3-07
FAST Update | Montenegro | No 2-07
FAST Update | Montenegro | No 1-07

FAST Update | Montenegro | No 1-06

FAST Update | Serbia and Montenegro | No 4-04
FAST Update | Serbia and Montenegro | No 3-04
FAST Update | Serbia and Montenegro | No 2-04
FAST Update | Serbia and Montenegro | No 1-04

FAST Update | Serbia and Montenegro | No 4-03
FAST Update | Serbia and Montenegro | No 3-03
FAST Update | Serbia and Montenegro | No 2-03
FAST Update | Serbia and Montenegro | No 1-03

FAST Update | Serbia and Montenegro | No 1-02

Country Expert

Dr Florian Bieber is a senior non-resident research associate of the European Centre for Minority Issues based in Belgrade and an International Policy Fellow with the Open Society Institute, Budapest. He previously worked as regional representative for ECMI in Belgrade and Sarajevo. He teaches at the regional Masters Program for Democracy and Human Rights at the University of Sarajevo and at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Vienna on contemporary nationalism in Serbia. He holds an M.A. in Southeast European Studies from the Central European University and an M.A. in History and Political Science from the University of Vienna.

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Russian Federation/North Caucasus

The Russian Federation/North Caucasus had been monitored by FAST International from 2002-2008. FAST established a Local Information Network in the North Caucasus region in summer 2002. Monitoring and reporting is done through FEWER Moscow.

FAST Updates
FAST Update | Adygeya| No 1-07

FAST Update | North Caucasus | No 2-03
FAST Update | North Caucasus | No 1-03

FAST Update | Chechnya | No 4-07
FAST Update | Chechnya | No 3-07
FAST Update | Chechnya | No 2-07
FAST Update | Chechnya | No 1-07

FAST Update | Chechnya | No 2-06
FAST Update | Chechnya | No 1-06

FAST Special Update | Chechnya | Oct 2005
FAST Update | Chechnya | No 2-05
FAST Update | Chechnya | No 1-05

FAST Update | Chechnya | No 2-04
FAST Special Update | Chechnya | June 2004
FAST Update | Chechnya | No 1-04

FAST Update | Chechnya | No 4-03
FAST Update | Chechnya | No 3-03
FAST Update | Chechnya | No 2-03
FAST Update | Chechnya | No 1-03

FAST Update | Daghestan | No 4-07
FAST Update | Daghestan | No 3-07
FAST Update | Daghestan | No 2-07
FAST Update | Daghestan | No 1-07

FAST Update | Daghestan | No 2-06
FAST Update | Daghestan | No 1-06

FAST Update | Daghestan | No 3-05
FAST Update | Daghestan | No 2-05
FAST Update | Daghestan | No 1-05

FAST Update | Daghestan | No 2-04
FAST Update | Daghestan | No 1-04

FAST Update | Daghestan | No 4-03
FAST Update | Daghestan | No 3-03
FAST Update | Daghestan | No 2-03
FAST Update | Daghestan | No 1-03

FAST Update | Ingushetia | No 1-04

FAST Special Update | Kabardin-Balkar | Oct 2005

FAST Update | Karachay-Cherkess | No 1-04

FAST Update | Rostov | No 1-07

FAST Update | North Ossetia | No 1-07

Country Expert

Dr. Enver Kisriev is a Senior Scientist with the Centre for Regional and Civilization Studies at the Russian Academy of Science (Moscow). He works also as a regional expert for EAWARN (Network of Ethnological Monitoring and Early Warning of Conflict) and FEWER (Forum on Early Warning and Early Response). Prior to this he was researcher and later on the head of the Department of Sociology at the Daghestani Academic Centre (Russian Academy of Science). Enver Kisriev holds a PhD in Sociology from the Russian Academy of Science (Leningrad/St. Petersburg). His main research interests are: problems of transmigration in Daghestan, modern ethnic and cultural processes in Daghestan, socio-economic and political problems in Daghestan, conflict and peace in the northern Caucasus, indicators for conflict monitoring.

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Serbia

Serbia had been monitored by FAST International from 2002-2008 with a temporary suspension in 2005/2006. FAST established a Local Information Network in Serbia-Montenegro in summer 2002.

FAST Analytical Framework
FAST Analytical Framework | Serbia | 2006

FAST Updates
FAST Update | Serbia | No 5-07
FAST Update | Serbia | No 4-07
FAST Update | Serbia | No 3-07
FAST Update | Serbia | No 2-07
FAST Update | Serbia | No 1-07

FAST Update | Serbia | No 1-06

FAST Update | Serbia and Montenegro | No 4-04
FAST Update | Serbia and Montenegro | No 3-04
FAST Update | Serbia and Montenegro | No 2-04
FAST Update | Serbia and Montenegro | No 1-04

FAST Update | Serbia and Montenegro | No 4-03
FAST Update | Serbia and Montenegro | No 3-03
FAST Update | Serbia and Montenegro | No 2-03
FAST Update | Serbia and Montenegro | No 1-03

FAST Update | Serbia and Montenegro | No 1-02

Country Expert

Dr Florian Bieber is a senior non-resident research associate of the European Centre for Minority Issues based in Belgrade and an International Policy Fellow with the Open Society Institute, Budapest. He previously worked as regional representative for ECMI in Belgrade and Sarajevo. He teaches at the regional Masters Program for Democracy and Human Rights at the University of Sarajevo and at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Vienna on contemporary nationalism in Serbia. He holds an M.A. in Southeast European Studies from the Central European University and an M.A. in History and Political Science from the University of Vienna.

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